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Qaddafi Strikes Back as Rebels Close In on Libyan Capital
Benghazi, Libya - Thousands of mercenary and other forces struck back at a tightening circle of rebellions around the capital, Tripoli, on Thursday, trying to fend off an uprising …
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Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak
Former CIA officer Ray McGovern. (Photo: Cheryl Biren) Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA …
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All-American Decline in a New World
This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history. Yes, comparisons can be made to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as …
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Look for the Union Label
Governor Walker of Wisconsin got up on his hind legs on Monday and blasted public-sector unions for being wasteful. He made it very clear that he intends to continue …
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Five Ways You Can Fight Citizens United
We never expected to be writing an article with this title. Aren’t united citizens a good thing? Civil Rights movement? Egypt? Madison?
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Did Roosevelt’s Racism Cause WWII?
That was the argument made in a U.S. bestseller in 2009 written by a WWII historian whose father had raised the US flag on Iwo Jima. And the Roosevelt …
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Richard D. Wolff | “The Tax Cut Bill” (Video)
Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New …
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What Conservatives Really Want
Dedicated to the peaceful protestors in Wisconsin, February 19, 2011. The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral …
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Whistling Dixie — Again
Washington - Does Haley Barbour really have a warped and offensive view of America's racial history? Or is he just playing a dangerous game? Perhaps both. …
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The Submerged State
The Great Paradox — that is what future generations will likely call this era, and rightly so. Our children's children will look back and see that just a few …